Description
| Product ID: | 9781837644384 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Liverpool: A Memoir of Words |
| Authors: | Author: Tony ) Crowley |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Language: history and general works, Dialect, slang and jargon, History, Social and cultural history, Language: history & general works, Dialect, slang & jargon, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, Lancashire, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1970 to c 1980 |
| Description: | Included in the TLS Books of the Year 2023 Written by an author brought up in working-class Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s, Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool with social history, the history of the English language and personal memoir. A beautifully written book, based on a lifetime’s academic research, it explores the relationship between language and memory, and demonstrates the ways in which words are enmeshed in history and history in words. Starting with ‘Ace’ and weaving its way alphabetically to ‘Z-Cars’, the work illustrates the deep relationship that has been forged in the past two hundred years or so between a form of language, a place and a social identity. The account is funny, sad, full of surprises and always illuminating. It tells the real history of ‘Scouse’, details the multicultural complexity of Liverpool English, examines the common use of ‘plazzymorphs’, and shows how Liverpudlian words exemplify standard processes of change and development. Neither a memoir, dictionary or history book, this work crosses different fields of knowledge in order to weave an engaging and fascinating story. It is a book that will educate and delight Liverpudlians, students of language and social historians alike. |
| Imprint Name: | Liverpool University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Liverpool University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-11-01 |